Spoofing attack in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2019-11698
Published: May 22, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU18563
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11698
CWE-ID: CWE-451
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of drag and drop operations. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted hyperlink that when dragged and dropped to the bookmark bar or sidebar and the resulting bookmark is subsequently dragged and dropped into the web content area, an arbitrary query of a user's browser history can be run and transmitted to the content page via drop event data.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to steal user's browser history.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-11698
Install updates from vendor's website.